Cork Midsummer Festival

The Irish Performing Arts Festival 2010

The Irish Performing Arts Festival is a new national festival established by COPE Foundation in 2009 to provide people with an intellectual disability, opportunities to display their artistic talents at a national level.

Eoin Nash, Artistic Director and founder of the festival, is a Music Therapist working in COPE Foundation and says that “COPE Foundation have been running concerts, shows and performing arts competitions internally as part of an arts development programme for many years. The feedback from these events has always been very positive”. It was from this stepping stone that Eoin contacted other organisations in the country in the hope to set up a national festival.

The 2010 Irish Performing Arts Festival will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th June 2010. All performances on Wednesday June 23rd 2010 are free and open to the public. Visit www.irishperformingarts.ie for performance details.

Categories in the festival include Dance, Drama, Instrumental and Song. The festival will take place in a number of venues across the city including Cork City Library, the Firkin Crane, the Cork School of Music and the Cork City hall. There will also be street performances on the Grand Parade. Performers from over thirty organisations across the country will travel to Cork for the festival, and just like last year a great atmosphere is expected around the city.

Further details can be obtained about the Irish Performing Arts Festival, performances and timetables on our website: www.irishperformingarts.ie

Tues 22 – Thurs 24 June 2010.
All performances on Wednesday June 23 2010 are free and open to the public.
Visit IrishPerformingArts.ie for performance details.